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Unable to speak lacking the power of speech




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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. - Robert Browning

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. - Tallulah Bankhead

When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound. - James Earl Jones

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. - Joan Miro

What is a farm but a mute gospel? - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past. - Mary Webb

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility. - Kate Millett

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute. - Adele

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